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Anonymous wrote:My 2.5 yr still does 3 bottles a day.

Thank G-d there's someone else. My 22 month old still has 2 and there it's the only way he'll drink milk. He LOVES those things.

I didn't stop bottles until my son was just over 3 years old.

I'm pretty sure I, myself, drank out of bottles until I was about 4! My mom said it wasn't that I couldn't drink out of a cup--I just preferred not to. (Apparently no sippy cups in the 70s?!) One day she took me and my bottles out to a farm and we fed the baby goats with them....and that is how I stopped taking a bottle.

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Anonymous wrote:My 2.5 yr still does 3 bottles a day.

Thank G-d there's someone else. My 22 month old still has 2 and there it's the only way he'll drink milk. He LOVES those things.

I didn't stop bottles until my son was just over 3 years old.

Anonymous wrote:My 3.5 yo still uses a pacifier for night and naps at home.

Mine too.

OP, you must be a Baby Rabies fan?! She posted about this today.

Anonymous wrote:My 5 year-old wanted to try breast milk again when the new baby was born, and I went along with it.

Oh haha, my almost 5 year old is obsessed with my breasts. We sometimes take a bath together and she always wants to try again as soon as she sees them; I actually don't often bathe with her because of this. I let her try when her brother was born...18 months ago!!!

Anonymous wrote:I thought these secrets would be a little heavier. Not that these aren't major issues. But I know two families and know some very heavy secrets about them. One has a highschool DD who has HIV and the other is raising a transgendered child. Nobody at their children's schools knows this.

I'm sorry my struggles are insignificant to you.

--PP with kid who chews toenails

Anonymous wrote:My son will be strikingly gorgeous. My daughter is good light/bad light pretty.

How is that a secret?

My son will be strikingly gorgeous. My daughter is good light/bad light pretty.

That mine seriously annoys me

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is three years old and has never had a babysitter other then daycare.

We do things together on the weekends because it is the only time we have together, other then the two short hours every weekday after pick up and before bedtime.

We do not have family that can help out unless it was an emergency and that would be a burden, for them because of their own responsibilities and distance from us, about 40 minutes.

My DS is almost 7, just the other day he had his first non-family "sitter". My neighbor came over for 90 min to stay with him while I went to BTSN.

My family is not local either. My parents come a few times a year and my brother comes often.

What's the big secret? It is the same for many families, 3 hours a day is not enough especially when half that time is spent, get them up and ready for the day, or ready for bed and to sleep for the night.

They both sleep with me nearly every night. I know people cosleep but this is more being too lazy to put them back.

I will look I to the services you recommended in va, but I doubt we qualify. We make just north of 6 figures, but things are tight with a baby, daughter's activities, a bunch of stupid medical bills not covered by insurance, etc etc. oh, and my husband's contract has been sold 2 times this year, so our insurance keeps changing on us. Insurance told me they would cover one of their people 100% - if I could just get one of their providers to call me back or give me a reasonable date not several months from now.

In addition to family members dying, 2 car accidents...seriously, it's been a lousy year.

We've had two sitters that weren't family or close friends in my daughter's 9.5 years.

My parents come up every few weeks, so that helps.

We just can't justify the expense of sitters - especially with the cost of dinner and a movie or whatever on top of it.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is three years old and has never had a babysitter other then daycare.

We do things together on the weekends because it is the only time we have together, other then the two short hours every weekday after pick up and before bedtime.

We do not have family that can help out unless it was an emergency and that would be a burden, for them because of their own responsibilities and distance from us, about 40 minutes.

And that is unique? We've never had a babysitter for our kids... we're too cheap and they are too expensive. Not worth $50-70 for a babysitter for dinner. Our family almost never helps.

So your secret is that all of you are up in the house miserable and counting your money??

We go out a few times a week, we just take our child. On a rare occasion he's with grandma. We eat out far more than we probably should. Good try. I'd rather put the money in my kid's college fund or take a nice trip. We had plenty of time alone for many years and will soon enough. We actually enjoy being with our child.

Uh. ..... Ok?

Anonymous wrote:My 2.5 yr still does 3 bottles a day.

Thank G-d there's someone else. My 22 month old still has 2 and there it's the only way he'll drink milk. He LOVES those things.